[Illustration: SALVADOR RAILWAY TO ACCOMPANY SALVADOR OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BY _PERCY F. MARTIN, F.R.G.S._ ]
In regard to the rolling-stock, this is equally well equipped and maintained, the greatest care being taken by the management to see that every car that is sent out is in a thoroughly sound state of repair and cleanliness. There are in all eleven locomotives, of which the following details will be of interest:
+---+------------------------+-----------------+---------------+-------+ | | | Cylinder. |Driving Wheels.|Weight.| |No.| Makers. +---------+-------+------+--------+-------+ | | |Diameter.|Stroke.|Pairs.| Inches.| Tons. | +---+------------------------+---------+-------+------+--------+-------+ | 1 |Prescott, Scott and Co.,| 12 in. | 16 in.| 2 | 38 | 17·50 | | | San Francisco | | | | | | | 2 |Baldwin Locomotive | 15 in. | 20 in.| 4 | 38 | 25·00 | | | Works, Philadelphia | | | | | | | 3 | " " | 15 in. | 20 in.| 4 | 38 | 25·00 | | 4 | " " | 15 in. | 20 in.| 4 | 38 | 25·00 | | 5 |Cooke, Patterson and | 16 in. | 20 in.| 4 | 38 | 30·35 | | | Co., New Jersey | | | | | | | 6 |Baldwin Locomotive | 17 in. | 20 in.| 3 | 42 | 36·74 | | | Works, Philadelphia | | | | | | | 7 | " " | 17 in. | 20 in.| 3 | 42 | 36·74 | | 8 | " " | 17 in. | 20 in.| 3 | 42 | 36·74 | | 9 | " " | 16 in. | 20 in.| 3 | 42 | 32·40 | |10 | " " | 16 in. | 20 in.| 3 | 42 | 32·40 | |11 | " " | 16 in. | 20 in.| 3 | 42 | 32·40 | +---+------------------------+---------+-------+------+--------+-------+
In addition to the above, two other engines of precisely similar make have lately been delivered to the Company by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, U.S.A. It is explained that the native engine-drivers are now accustomed to these engines, which are to be found in use upon almost the whole of the South and Central American railways.
The rolling-stock on the Salvador Railway is maintained in the same efficient order as are the stations and permanent way. It consists of some twenty-three passenger coaches as follows: Eight of first class, light but strong carriages, suitable for a tropical country and fitted with wide seats upholstered in rattan; one second class, only a trifle less expensively upholstered, but in no wise less airy or comfortable; and four brake and luggage vans. Of goods-waggons there are 161--namely, 1 workmen's car, 5 cattle cars, 95 covered-goods and 60 platform cars. These cars are mostly the manufacture of the Lancaster Carriage and Waggon Company, Ltd., of Lancaster, and the Allison Manufacturing Company, of Philadelphia, U.S.A. The company have recently erected some ten box waggons at the well-fitted railway shops at Sonsonate, where every appliance and the newest equipment of machinery are to be found. The passenger coaches are also partly of British and partly of American construction, the Lancaster Carriage and Waggon Company, Ltd., and the Harlan, Hollingsworth Company, of Philadelphia, being responsible for this part of the equipment.